Royal Marines have parachuted ‘deep behind enemy lines’ during demanding winter exercises in Sweden with forces from the United States Airforce. The elite Surveillance Reconnaissance Squadron of 30 Commando Information Exploitation Group were training alongside the Americans in capturing positions from the air from an adversary, giving allied forces a foothold in enemy … [Read more...]
Royal Navy scores second major drugs bust of month in Gulf
Sailors and Royal Marines bagged more than a tonne of cannabis when they intercepted drug smugglers on the infamous Hashish Highway. The team from HMS Montrose recovered bales of hash from the waters of the Gulf of Oman – then found a secret narcotics cache hidden aboard a dhow during a two-day operation which resulted in a haul worth more than £6m on the streets of the UK … [Read more...]
Royal Marines Musicians remember Deal Bombing 30 years on
Royal Marines Musicians will return to Kent on Sunday September 22 – 30 years to the day of one of the darkest moments in their proud history. Eleven musicians were killed and another 11 injured when a bomb planted by the IRA in the ‘Coffee Boat’ rest area of the Staff Band at the Royal Marines School of Music, Deal, blew up. The blast destroyed the building and a … [Read more...]
Royal Marines finish Arctic training with fierce test in Sweden
Months of intensive training for Britain’s winter warfare specialists reached its climax as Royal Marines went into battle with their Scandinavian counterparts in the Arctic snow. Some 350 Royal Marines from 40 Commando in Taunton joined Norwegian troops and US Marines in a week-long mock battle trying to invade Swedish territory – with the hosts and Finnish troops blocking … [Read more...]
Royal Marines’ mortars light up Arctic night sky on exercise in Norway
Royal Marines lit up Arctic fjords and valleys as they laid down mortar rounds in the dark during winter training in Norway. Illumination shells bathed the striking mountainscape around the small town of Bardufoss – roughly half way between Tromsø and Narvik – in an eerie light as the men of 40 Commando’s Mortar Troop conducted their fire missions. The live firing is the … [Read more...]
Duke of Sussex visits sailors and marines in the Arctic Circle during visit to Commando Helicopter Force
The Duke of Sussex spent part of Valentine’s Day visiting Naval Service personnel hundreds of miles inside the Arctic Circle. In his first overseas visit in his role as Captain General of the Royal Marines, His Royal Highness was involved in celebrations marking 50 years of UK helicopter exercises in the extreme cold. The Commando Helicopter Force (CHF) – the wings of the … [Read more...]
Real-life Iron Man returns to Royal Marines training base to beat assault course using jet suit
Iron Man faced up to the Royal Marines as a former colleague turned jet suit inventor demonstrated his kit for commandos. Ex-Royal Marines Reservist Richard Browning – nicknamed the ‘real-life Iron Man’ – flew a 1000bhp jet suit around the Royal Marines’ infamous bottom field assault course at the Commando Training Centre in Lympstone, Devon. Scores of fellow commandos … [Read more...]
Royal Marines train England’s Young Lionesses for World Cup
The England Under 20s Women’s Football squad spent 48 hours with the Royal Marines – hoping to benefit from the same grit and determination which steeled Gareth Southgate’s World Cup squad. The Young Lionesses are just a month away from appearing in the U20 World Cup finals in France. Thirty-one players tackled the commandos’ fearsome endurance course, spent a night in … [Read more...]
HMS Ocean leads Greek naval exercise
The Royal Navy’s helicopter carrier HMS Ocean has led a force of 20 ships and over 300 British, Greek and US Marines to ‘storm’ Crete for the Greek Navy’s main autumn war exercises. The Greeks host Exercise Niriis to test an international naval force and its ability to respond to a major crisis in the region – similar to the Turkish exercise HMS Ocean and the … [Read more...]
HMS Albion training for global duties
The crew of Britain’s future flagship HMS Albion are half-way through all-action autumn training to prepare them for duties around the globe. Three weeks into her operational sea training off the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, HMS Albion has already sent Royal Marines ashore to ‘storm’ West Country beaches, patched up a mock community affected by natural disaster, and … [Read more...]
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